Symptom Watch – Neurodigest

Hypnosis & Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (FND)

Dr Jason Price About Jason… Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. He is also Chair of the Policy Unit, Division of Neuropsychology, BPS, and Chair of the UK FNForum, British Neuropsychiatry ...(read more)

Insomnia: Does it keep the GP awake at night?

Healthcare professionals can watch this 30 minute presentation by Dr Roger Henderson. See ...(read more)

Motor Neurone Disease: A guide for GPs and primary care teams.

“I was truly impressed by this document as it is comprehensive, informative and in my opinion extremely useful" - comment from Dr Nassif Mansour, GPSI and P-CNS chair. ...(read more)

It’s OK to say “I don’t know”: Observations from a person with a complex neurological condition

Polly Moyer gives a detailed patient perspective on what it is like to live with a rare neurological condition with an array of sensory symptoms. ...(read more)

Headache – a continuing challenging symptom for GPs to manage

When the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Primary Headache Disorders published it’s report in 2014, it stated that “Primary headache disorders are extremely disabling and highly prevalent. They place a significant demand on NHS resources ...(read more)

Excessive serous saliva – a significant quality of life issue

Excessive serous saliva, also referred to as sialorrhoea is common in people with neurological conditions and is often problematic and embarrassing. Alexander McGeachan and Christopher McDermott have written a very useful review, published in the ...(read more)

Bladder and Bowel Management in People with Neurological Conditions.

The MS Trust recently highlighted that around 75 per cent of people with MS experience bladder problems, which can have a big impact on your everyday life. But on the MS Trust website, there are a number of simple management strategies that you may ...(read more)

Mood, guts, sleep, steadiness and pain: A practical guide to some non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease

From my experience of managing people with Parkinson’s disease (PD), although doctors tend to concentrate on the more visible motor symptoms, it’s often the non motor symptoms that have a more disruptive impact and are more troublesome for ...(read more)

Diagnostic pathways for headache: the red flags that may indicate more serious pathology

The vast majority of headache symptoms are benign and relate to the well-known and common conditions of tension type headache (TTH: episodic and chronic), migraine (with or without aura: episodic and chronic), medication overuse headache ...(read more)